Earl H. Kinmonth
Topics in Modern Japanese Political History
Friday 3rd and 4th Periods
Room 22-203
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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9 November - Study questions for the 13 November meeting are
available here and from
the Handous and Reference Material Archive.
These questions are largely based on Mitani, "The
Establishment of Party Cabinets, 1898-1932."
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7 November - Changes to the Handouts and Reference Material
Archive.
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New item added - nakamura-depression-recovery-war-1920-1945
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Cleaner copy with page numbers - mitani-establishment-party-cabinets-1898-1932.pdf
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4 November - A number of new readings have been added to the
Handouts and Reference Material Archive.
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reynolds-peculiar-characteristics-fascist-era.pdf
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spilzman-fascist-quasi-fascist-ideas-interwar-japan.pdf
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young-colonizing-manchuria-making-imperial-myth.pdf
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maruyama-ideology-dynamics-japanese-fascism.pdf
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maruyama-thought-behaviour-wartime-leaders.pdf
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barshay-marxism-presence-past-japanese-capitalism.pdf
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kasza-comparative-analysis-state-mass-media.pdf
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okazaki-wartime-economy-government-business-relations.pdf
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saguchi-industrial-patriotic-association.pdf
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mitani-establishment-party-cabinets-1898-1932.pdf
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28 October - Thanks to access to a high speed sheet feed
scanner, I have been able to add a number of required or
suggested readings to the Handouts and Reference Material
Archive.
- berger-politics-and-mobilization-1931-1945
- crowley-intellectuals-as-visionaries-new-asian-order
- crowley-japanese-army-factionalism
- dore-ouchi-rural-origins-japanese-fascism
- duus-okimoto-failure-of-a-concept
- duus-scheiner-socialism-liberalism-marxism-1901-1931
- kasza-fascism-from-below
- kasza-war-and-welfare-policy
- kinmonth-military-procurements-old-middle-classes
- kinmonth-saito-takao-mouse-that-roared
- mccormack-nineteen-thirties-japan-fascism
- spaulding-bureaucracy-as-political-force-1920-1945
- wilson-new-look-japanese-fascism
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24 October - The reading assignment for 30 October is Pyle,
Meiji Conservatism. This reading and an associated study
and discussion guide are available from the Handouts and
Reference Material archive.
There are now two copies of the Handouts and Reference
Material archive, one hosted by Just Systems and the other
hosted by Google Groups. Use whichever is most convenient.
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21 October - Three items dealing with the class character of
the samurai (dealt with in class on 16 October) have been
added to the archive of reading materials available through
this web page. They are
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Douglas R. Howland, "Samurai Status, Class, and Bureaucracy:
A Historiographical Essay," Journal of Asian Studies 60:2
(2001 May): 353-380.
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Marius B. Jansen, "The Ruling Class."
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Fukuzawa Yukichi, "Kyuhanjo."
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4 October - A Google Groups mailing list has been created
for this course. If you subscribe to this mailing list, you
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the course.
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3 October - The syllabus (course outline) has been revised to more clearly
indicate required and reference reading. The amount of
required reading has been reduced.
A "supplementary material" page has been added. A scan of Jansen, "Meiji Restoration" is
available from the handouts archive.
REFERENCE MATERIAL
Last Updated - 9 November 2009